• Boozilla
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      1172 months ago

      I’ve seen threads where every single comment, no matter how anodyne, has 1 downvote. Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

          • mozingo
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            112 months ago

            Lmao the down votes on this are really funny to me

            • teft
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              82 months ago

              What I get a kick out of is the down and upvotes mean basically nothing and yet people still get super sensitive about them. They only move your comment up or down the thread. It’s not like reddit where there is a karma count for all your posts and comments. Hell you don’t even get auto hidden like the way reddit would do. You just get downvoted.

              Some people downvote to show disapproval. Others downvote if the comment doesn’t add to the conversation. Still others are just trolling. No one should worry about the downvotes.

      • @[email protected]
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        342 months ago

        anodyne

        anodyne /ăn′ə-dīn″/ adjective

        1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
        2. Relaxing. “anodyne novels about country life.”
        3. Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

        tanks fer noo werd dae fren

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        I always figure it’s someone whose life has become so pathetic, they bitterly downvote every single comment to try feel some control. And as a result, they feel like the Phantom of the Socials. Alone, but the true master of the place.

        Everyone must wonder, ‘Who keeps downvoting us?’ It is I! The true Master of Lemmy and- No, mother!.. Yes, mother!.. I tried but nobody wants to talk to me!.. I don’t want to!.. Yeah, she’s cute!.. I don’t want you to do that!.. Mother put the phone down!”

        • Boozilla
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          42 months ago

          LOL, I can picture this person. They probably have a gross-looking bandaid on their downvote finger.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Lol how about every pirate who fundamentally opposes the copyright system?

      How about everyone who uses Google and doesn’t want to see it shut down for scraping copyrighted content to provide a search engine?

      Seriously, explain to me what’s different at a fundamental level about OpenAI scraping the web and transforming the data through an LLM and Google scraping the web and transforming the data through their algorithms (which include LLMs)?

      • @[email protected]
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        462 months ago

        Google (used to) scrapes the specific details authorized by robots.txt and uses it to make your content visible.

        OpenAI scrapes everything it can technically see, ignoring robots.txt and feeds i to a black box and regurgitates it claiming it’s something new, that it deserves to be paid for.

        Quite different actually.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 months ago

          So if OpenAI complies with Robots.txt files then there’s no issue right?

          Because then they’re identical. Open AI spent a bunch of money building a powerful system they feed those results to, as did Google.

            • @[email protected]
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              82 months ago

              Actually Google tries their hardest NOT to point you to content. They scrape the data from sites and display it directly in the search results so that you don’t need to visit any site except Google. Their new AI answers that they are pushing on users are just another step in that direction.

              • @[email protected]
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                92 months ago

                Which is why Google is no longer my default browser. I’d be quite happy if it reverted Back to don’t be evil or just ceased ro exist

            • @[email protected]
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              62 months ago

              Literally every page Google shows you, where it also shows you those ads it makes money from, is Google’s content and it is derived from the data it gets scraping the web.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        Web search used to be about scraping the web to find and present other people’s work as just that… their work. Now the handful of websites claim ownership of the contributions of everyone, and at this point it’s just corporations arguing about who owns your stuff. Pirates will not win out in this argument, except maybe in the very short term.

      • oce 🐆
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        82 months ago

        Search engines provide source, they scrap for indexing, but your search gives a list of websites that matches that you will then likely visit. That’s a big fundamental difference.

      • I dont see why why being downvoted you make some very good points.

        Id actually like to see google shut down on copyright grounds. The innovation of necessity would drive foss search alternatives that just ignore said restrictions and most likly we would end up with a better product.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Yes they do, just indirectly, it’s how they monopolized the online advertising business.

    • Buelldozer
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      82 months ago

      WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

      That’s the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.

        • m-p{3}
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          Votes aren’t private on the fediverse, it’s just a that some interfaces won’t display them. Also, instance admins can see who voted too.

          But like @[email protected] said

          Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

          It mainly useful for admins to detect if there is some vote manipulation going on.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      To steel man the downvoters, maybe there are other solutions besides killing off every business that can’t afford to comply with copyright. After all, isn’t the whole point of copyright to enable the capitalist exploitation of information?